Tuesday is a Work Day

It is supposed to rain cats and dogs on Tuesday. Therefore, there will not be a tour scheduled. Today's 10h00 tour and our tours in Ottawa will suffice.

I am OK with the fact that you all have decided that these tours are not valuable enough to participate in but it is perplexing. I'm sure you have your reasons. I'll keep doing them throughout June but will not do them in July.

These are the same paths and points that groups from TTU have gone to for 10 years now. These events have always been tacitly "your choice" and the class workload this year is no different than in years before, but this is the first year that the majority have not taken part.

I've taught many, many studios now. I've always sensed that your class year was a very intelligent group and that there are some very interesting personalities at play in the collective. That's why we keep after you all and aren't satisfied with what you've done so far, regardless of what obstacles that you've felt have been put in your way. There is more to university than getting the coursework done and satisfying the instructor. There hasn't been a lot of example of that for you to observe. This doesn't always seem to be a faculty of wonder and joy in our presentation of professional content. But you're knee deep in this thing now and you've got to generate your own wonder for what you're going to do for the rest of your life. Otherwise, its going to suck. You'll treat it like a job, not a full profession with civic and moral responsibilities in matters of designing and managing the built environment. Give up the sense of efficiency and become more curious and engaged- to a fault try being more of a tinkerer and less of a scientist in your work. The work is the investigation, not theh result or manifestation of it. If studio meetings are like an athletic or musical practice then the goal of the event is not finishing but growing and engaging.